London Eye
Cantilevered observation wheel on the Thames, rising one hundred and thirty-five metres with views across forty kilometres of London.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the London Eye follows architects David Marks and Julia Barfield, who entered a design competition for a millennium landmark in 1993 and then risked their own home to see it built. You'll hear about their radical single-frame design that engineers doubted, and the contractors who nearly stripped out the innovations during construction. It traces the wheel's assembly on Thames barges before it was ever lifted upright.
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